The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-24

Documents Showing He Was an italian, and
nnr m snn of Philippe Egalite.

Correspondence
have been shown two letters written on June
and June 9 Of the present year by the Hon.
Frederick Wynn as the amanuonsis OF his father
lord NewborouGh, now In MS elgnty-tourtn
scar and toe infirm TO write. They go far to
strengthen the position of the author of the in
f,rdicted drama, MARIA Stella" about which
arote last May-namely. that Lady Marlborough,
whose second husband was Baron Steinberg. was
the daughter OF Philippe Egalite, and his wife.
nee Princesse de Observation-Disclosures / should
give textualiy these letters had not the to
whom they were addressed asked me not to do
SO, lest they might afford clue
70 the Orleansts of the existence of
papers which this play wright wants to get hold
Of. They are papers that belonged to Lady
Marlborough; they relate to her birth, and
escaped being seized by the police wnen she was
last in Paris. The first seizure brought
about through the Vaccinations of the Due
DecaZes in the reign of Louis xviii. and the
second after the revolution of 1880. Copies OF
some of the documents thus looted oD the pre-
text that Lady Marlborough was an adventuress
were placed in the hands of the Russian en-
bassador here, who communicated them to bis
court The presumed Italian parentage OF the
Citizen King was it appears, believed in by
Nicholas. Even more than the fact that Louis
Philippe assembled the throne from barrlcade,
the history of Maria Stella rendered him odious
to that Gar. Nicholas was a turnkey on a
grand scale And so, the principle that two
of a trade never agree, he could not endure tne
alleged son Of the Modigliana jaller.
The Hon. Frederick Wynn writes that Chap.
pini whom he clearly regards as the father or
Louis Philippe, had another daughter whom
Maria Stella, until the secret of her birth was
revealed, believed to be her sister. rms lazy
married a clergyman of South Wales the lev.
Mr. Wilkins It was remarkable that there was
not the least resent lance between her aud Lady
Marlborough, but that there was slnguIarly
strong one between Mrs. wilkins and Louis
Philippe, who, 1t also appears, was the image OF
old Chiaopini. The present Lord Marlborough
saw all four, and could testify to the similarity
of three, and to the no less striking resemblance
An the gallery of Versailles His lordshp. the
ZION. Frederick says is considered to have
Pourbon physiognomy
secret of Lady Newborough's birth. The
jailoress, inpgrowing old. louged to have with
her the son. whom as an infant, she had handed
over to the Comte and Comtesse de Jonvile-
under which title Philippe Egalite and his wife
travelled in Italy-taking in exchange their
daughter and a lump of money. While she
7eined for a male offspring, his putatve mother,
5he Duchesse dOreans. manifested aversion
for him. At his wife's bidding Chlappini wrote
20 Lady Marlborough to inform her who she
was, and so ''the murder was out" But she
did not get to Florence in time to obtain a last
dying speech and confession before a notary.
The turnkey was nearly paralyzed and speech,
less. The Hon. Frederick Wynn writes that all
he could say to those who came to take down
his words at his bedside was, being interro-
gated, "a swop, swop," tbaratta.)
have a political carcature, done apparently
after the law passed forbidding the phiz of
the Citizen King to be made free with by cariea-
turists- Because it throws a side-light on the
Marlborough affair now speak of it. back
view is given of Louis Philippe, seated on three
cages arranged in a pyramid and In the charac-
ter of a turnkey. One of the lower cages is LA
Conciergerie," and the other LA Bicetre,"
which were both used political prisons. and
filed with prisoners. The upper one is
'Blaye." and the Gagged captive is a lady sitting
by a table with her face in her hands and weep
ing. She is fair haired young, dressed in light
green with leg-of-mutton sleeves, and is clearly
the Duchess de Berri One recognizes the King
who clapped her into prison by his pear shaped
head and the form in which his wig is dressed
He is in a bottlegreen evening coat, and
IL. 49, I. 1f L habit hanIr -,
both hands. His feet are shod in sabots, and
there are tri-colored clocks in his silk
stockings. L fell upon this caricature as ! was
going one morning to call Theirs, bought it,
and took it to show to him. He remembe to
have seen it when he was a minister, and said
it came from an ''oficine' subsidized by the
King Of the Netherlands and the Gar, and
directed by partisan of Charles X. The artist
wanted to call attention to the alleged italian
origin OF Louis Philippe. Bon Chen Chase
de Race" was the title and underneath was a
doggerel rhyme not fattering TO lie roi populaire.
Theirs said that Lady Marlborough was in
good faith. She first put forward her claim
when Decazes was the favorite OF Louis XVIII
He obliged her to quit Paris. She returned
after 1880 a Russian subject. and under the
protection OF the Gear and the patronage of the
Queen of the Netherlands Anna Paulovna
Talleyrand showed interest in her, and
Thicfs also remembered that her presence in
Paris made Louis Philippe uneasy.
Again. in or about 1873, was staying to rusti-
cate in of-the-way sylvan place, where
before the Franco German war I had passed
many summers, near Lmours. An English old
maid, who had been, time out OF mind, living in
q pretty cottage there and who known
Miss Helen. called on me as a neighbor. She had
been in early life governesS to the daughters of
the Due de Mortmare, with them at St
Petersburg when their father was ambassador
ef France there, had witnessed the revolt which
Nicholas Quelleo, and when the Due de Mortmare
rsturned to France was for several years his
aLnanuensis. In returning her visit l saw the
duplicate Of the caricature of Louis Philippe as
q turnkey, and, telling Miss Helen that had it's
fellow she gave me it's history. 1t was suggested
at a conciliabule at the Due de MortInare's to
young artist named Pellier and was meant to
kill two birds with one stone-to show up the
Inconsistency of the popular King and to call at
ignition to the Chiappini scandal. Miss Helen
1new Maria Stella at Ravenna the wife of
aaron Steinberg and later in Paris. She had
many Bourbon peculiarities, was talented, aud.
though she had gone great deal through tho
world. in Italy. London, St Petersburg, and
elsewhere. was naive rather than knavish. I'm
questionably she was after 1880 urged by the
Queen Of the Netherlands and Nicholas TO revive
the claims she made soon after the Restoration
She lived, after the revolution of July, almost
next door to Talleyrand, who made overtures to
her. but was-she living on a second floor above
the entresol-too infirm TO visit her. When he
died the Princess de Lieven bought his house.
and she and Lady Marlborough often each
other Their intimacy was the reason why
Guizot originally paid court to the Princess at
Che bidding of his sovereign. who hoped, through
Nine. de Lieven, to detach the courts of The
Vague and of St. Petersburg from Maria Stella
and to bring them round to the Orleans dynasty.
According to Miss Helen, the Princess became
a very false friend of the claimant to royal
blood. The lunacy law of 1888, of which Baron
Raymond de Selliere is now victim, was as
much devised a weapon against Lady New
borough as against the Baroness de Feucheres,
the co-legatee with the Due d'Aumale of the Due
de Bourbon. After the law was passed Lady
Marlborough, who had become too infrm to
travel, lived in a state of terror in Paris She
did not dare any of whose friendship she
not sure, go out without an escort OF
trusty servants. The concierge was told by the
police to treat her as insane. Her insanity"
consisted in her sympathy for dickey birds,
which she used to attract in such numbers to
her balcony that they darkened the windows of
che house in which she lived, opposite the Tuil-
cries Gardens. Whenever she went into the
Fnrdens they formed cloud around her, and
eEe was known in Paris as LA Dame aux Moni-
eaux.' The noteriety this her, with her
strange and striking likeness to the Bourbons,
gave umbrage to the court.
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